Ausdruck zu klein / Printout too small

[BigD79]

Hallo,

ich habe mir auf einem A4 Arbeitsblatt eine Skizze erstellt. Diese hat spezielle Maße. Beim Ausdruck wird die Skizze allerdings leicht verkleinert. Ich habe keine Idee, wie ich das ändern kann. Wer kann mir dabei helfen?

Vielen Dank!

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Affinity forums, @BigD79.

13 hours ago, BigD79 said:

I made a sketch on an A4 worksheet. This has special dimensions. When printing, however, the sketch is slightly reduced. I have no idea how to change that. Who can help me with this? (Translation provided by Safari on iPadOS.)

Which Affinity application are you using, and which OS? What settings did you use in the Print dialog? What is your document size and DPI, and what units did you use use when creating the document?

Can you provide a sample document in Affinity format (.afdesign, .afphoto, .afpub) that does this for you?

[BigD79]

Hey Walt,

Vielen Dank für Deine Antwort.

Ich nutze den Designer auf einem IPad Pro mit IOS 18 in der Version 2.5.7. Das Dokument ist in A4 und die Maße der Skizze habe ich in mm gemacht.

Die Datei findest Du in der Anlage. Das Problem ist eben, dass der Ausdruck nicht die Maße der Zeichnung hat.

Gruß Daniel

Serviettenhalter BBQ Vers. 2.afdesign

[walt.farrell]

Thanks. I think this is logged as bug AF-1016.

[walt.farrell]

By the way, I should mention that:

1. If I export a PDF from Designer 2.5.7 on iPadOS, and Print the PDF using Acrobat Reader, the size is also wrong. Slightly larger than what Designer prints by about 2mm, but still significantly smaller than it should be. However, I don't know if this is because my printer uses Letter paper not A4, and Acrobat doesn't provide access to any scaling options so it might be using a reduced size to make it all fit. I haven't tried resizing the document yet. That will be my next experiment.
    
2. For some reason I have not yet figured out, I cannot export your file successfully without ungrouping the top Group. If I leave it grouped as you provided it, I get nothing visible in the exported file. I've tried with PDF, PNG, and JPG. When I ungroup it, the export works fine. (I also tried 2.6 beta with the same results.)
   
   Ungrouping is not required when I use Designer 2.5.7 on Windows. If anyone can explain this I'd be interested in knowing whether I've missed something, or if there's another bug.

[BigD79]

Vielen Dank für Deine Mühe, Walt. 
So wie ich das verstehe, gibt es aktuell keine Lösung für das Problem. 
Schade. 
 

Gruß Daniel 

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome. No, there is no workaround except adjusting the scaling in the Print dialog to account for the discrepancy produced on your iPad with that printer. Or exporting to PDF and seeing if another application (Preview, Acrobat) can print it correctly.

 

[walt.farrell]

I experimented a bit further, and created a letter-size version of your file. On my iPad, Designer still prints it slightly smaller than it should (though better than when I used your A4-size version). Acrobat prints it correctly, confirming there's an Affinity issue in printing on the iPad, at least with iPadOS 18. I think I read somewhere that it used to work with iPadOS 16, and started failing in iPadOS 17, so perhaps Affinity isn't handling some change made in iPadOS 17 properly.

[Patrick Connor]

Thanks for your post. I have added it to our report